§ From William Jams. 9 August 1806, Lisbon. “At 8 p.m.” “I have this moment learnt that a Courier arrived the last night from Paris to this Court which is now at Mafra, 8 lea: distant, and bring advice that the Preliminaries of a General Peace was signed the 26th. Ulto. in that City, what the terms are has not transpired; nor have I the information in so direct a manner that implicit confidence ought be given to it, but I have little doubt of it.”

Adds in a 10 Aug. 1806 postscript at 2:00 p.m.: “I have this moment seen the Secretary of the French Ambassy, who says that they have not received any official account of the signing the Preliminaries, but that the Russian Minister at Madrid writes to the Russian Minister here, that an express had at the moment he was writing arrived from Paris announcing the signing the Preliminaries on the 26th. at 9 p.m. and that Hanover, was restored & the Cape of Good Hope & Malta given up to the English.

“The delay of the Perseverance affords me an opporty to give this additional advice.”